Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expenses of this were known as coat-and-conduct money , part of which was reimbursed by the Crown but most of which was borne by the counties . |
| 2 | To portray specific characters , whether imagined or real ( some were known to members of the audience at the first performance of Enigma Variations and Isadora ) , the would-be choreographer can use classical dance as a firm base but must pay more attention to his characters as particular individuals . |
| 3 | None of this was known to the British at the time . |
| 4 | She could not now pretend that none of this was known to her , that she was still simply a diligent and faithful daughter , loyal handmaid of a noble art . |
| 5 | All this was known to the auditors , they did n't spill the beans . |
| 6 | This was known as ‘ the Inspectors ’ Course , and is now referred to as the ‘ Junior Command Course ’ . |
| 7 | This was known as the Hyde Park Aide-Memoir of September 1944 . |
| 8 | This was known as The Dragon Project , which he describes as ‘ a non-intrusive multi-disciplinary and multi-mode way of trying to understand the enigmatic stone monuments of prehistory ’ . |
| 9 | This was known as — ‘ Here 's to the next time ’ and was followed by a man 's voice which says — ‘ Good evening ladies and gentlemen . |
| 10 | This was known as the Winter Term and was followed by a month of welcome holiday . |
| 11 | Contemporary operas fell into three main categories : opera seria , a genre of high moral — sometimes tragic — tone , dealing usually with heroic or mythological subjects , and suitable for court productions ; opera buffa , its comic equivalent , dealing with more everyday subject matter ( both had texts in Italian ) ; and vernacular opera , usually farcical in nature , with spoken dialogue in the appropriate country 's tongue — in Germany and Austria , this was known as Singspiel . |
| 12 | This was known as the PC-5A and flew for the first time in July 1939 . |
| 13 | Up to April 1988 this was known as supplementary pension and was the arm of the supplementary benefit system catering for older people . |
| 14 | This was known as the ‘ butty system ’ , which has a long history in the area ( Griffin , 1977 , p. 26 ) . |
| 15 | It was quickly obvious why this was known as the " Death Cave " — and , indeed , why the great tree had assumed such vulgar grandeur , for the stinking loam around its roots was thick with human bones . |
| 16 | At one time this was known as the ‘ wrong note ’ technique , favoured by such composers as Stravinsky . |
| 17 | This was known as Chrism Fee , the Holy Chrism was the consecrated oil used in the rite of baptism and distributed at Easter to churches in the Bishopric of Rochester . |
| 18 | This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis . |
| 19 | To her surprise both Rohan and Jacques poured red wine into their bowls as they drank , and Marie-Christine explained this was known as chabrot . |
| 20 | Around Sheffield this was known as the " stuffing system " and prices were said to be overvalued three-fold . |
| 21 | This was known as the King 's Plate Prize and was made in about 1750 . |
| 22 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 23 | None of this was known in 1926 when Paneth and Peters attempted to join two hydrogen protons to make helium , as the discovery of the neutron only occurred in 1932 . |
| 24 | Before much was known about the structure , trivial names were the only way to identify compounds . |
| 25 | He was silent for a while , realizing how much was known about him . |
| 26 | Not much was known about them , and no Yek had ever visited them — the Yek were not keen sailors — it was not even certain that they were inhabited . |
| 27 | At the time that Alpher , Bethe , and Gamow wrote their paper , not much was known about the nuclear reactions of protons and neutrons . |
| 28 | Not much was known about its owner at the time , he was called Colin French . |
| 29 | these were known as the local limit . |
| 30 | These were known as burghs of barony and regality . |